A resolution urging the Local Markets Committee and the Socio-Economic Enterprises headed by City Administrator Roger Balo to study the establishment of a "barter trade center" in Bacolod City has been proposed by Councilor Alex Paglumotan.

Paglumotan, chairman of the Committee on Markets and Slaughterhouse, said he has noticed that the sidewalks along commercial areas in the city are flooded with items such as DVD, VCD tapes, and cellphone paraphernalia, as well as relief goods and imported items from China.

Although their presence in the downtown area is in violation of some existing city ordinances, he said he believes there is no way to stop them since it is their source of livelihood, and there is an urgent need to regulate their existence and identify and establish an area for them to do their business ventures legally while subjecting them to taxation as another avenue of income generation.*CGS

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